Feeding Your Guinea Pig and the Importance of Vitamin C

You need quality feed in his Guinea Pig Hutch

Feeding your guinea pig isn’t difficult. You can buy premade commercial guinea pig food in your pet shop and this should be provided in a dedicated feeding bowl in the guinea pig hutch at all times. However there are some other things you should feed your guinea pig as well.

Hay is a big part of the guinea pigs diet, and many people will use hay both as a lining for the floor of the guinea pig hutch as well as the floor of the sleeping area, and as there is hay in the cage already the guinea pigs will eat that.

However guinea pigs also like green leafy vegetables, (although you should avoid cabbage and lettuce as these can cause diarrhoea). They will also happily eat fruit and root vegetables like carrots, though it is better not to feed these in large quantities.

A guinea pig needs plenty of roughage in the diet which gets them chewing which helps wear down their teeth, otherwise the teeth can grow and cause dental problems.

Good vegetables to feed are the leaves of broccoli celery brussels sprouts and spinach and Asian greens.

And guinea pigs also require plenty of vitamin C because they are unable synthesise vitamin C from their food. Green leafy veggies provide vitamin C however you can supplement this with citrus or kiwifruit in small quantities which is also high in vitamin C.

And of course guinea pigs love grass.

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